MyBB Multiple Vulnerabilities - Aug14

Summary
This host is installed with MyBB and is prone to multiple vulnerabilities.
Impact
Successful exploitation will allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session or execute arbitrary SQL statements on the vulnerable system, which may leads to access or modify data in the underlying database. Impact Level: Application
Solution
No solution or patch is available as of 9th February, 2015. Information regarding this issue will be updated once the solution details are available. For updates refer to www.mybb.com
Insight
Flaw is due to the install/index.php, private.php, showthread.php, search.php, misc.php, forumdisplay.php scripts which do not properly sanitize user-supplied input via the 'keywords' parameter.
Affected
MyBB version 1.8 Beta 3
Detection
Send a crafted data via HTTP GET request and check whether it is able to execute sql query or not.
References